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All The Night I Lay With Jockey

This is a great 3/2 tune which is very old but still quite popular amongst NSPipers. This was transcribed from a compilation of Cut & Dry Band pipes recordings called "The Wind In The Reeds". The setting comes from the early 19th century John Peacock manuscript. A similar setting appeared in the Minstrelsy at the end of the 19th century, albeit with only 4 parts (those mad last 2 parts were omitted) and the title changed to "All The Night I Lay Awake". Apparently it was censored because the Jockey title was felt to be too smutty for Victorian sensibilities! A version of this 4-part setting appears on Nancy Kerr & James Fagan’s "Starry Gazy Pie" in a set with "Lang Stay’d Away" https://thesession.org/tunes/3024 and "Little Fishie" https://thesession.org/tunes/1259.

Kathryn Tickell

“All Night I Lay With Jockey” / “Lassie Gae Milk On My Cow Hill”

Source of transcription: "The Wind in the Reeds: The Northumbrian Smallpipes"

This is for Doc Dow, Mark, also with hopes that he can answer the question "Which piper?" Then, maybe Colin Ross can answer that? ~ very likely! Lacking these two resources, I suspect that the sleeve notes for the LPs, "Cut and Dry Dolly" & "Cut and Dry #2", are also minus that information? :-/ I can but hope for more. ;-)

"Lassie Gae Milk On My Cow Hill", this melody in a slightly different order, is in John Riddell’s "Collection of Scotch Galwegian Border Tunes", 1794, page 9… I’ll add a transcription of that later. Some have listed this as a composition by John Riddell, of Glenriddell, but I wouldn’t take its inclusion in his collection as proof of this. I am yet to be convinced. John Riddell was friend, drinking companion, and fellow collector of music with Robert Burns…